From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16098 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2003 14:47:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16072 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2003 14:47:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2003 14:47:16 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5233A2B89; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F993B75.2030809@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:47:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc,rfa:ppc64] Add osabi wildcard support References: <3F986371.9060708@redhat.com> <20031023234150.GA16173@nevyn.them.org> <3F987479.7020904@redhat.com> <20031024005219.GA17411@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00729.txt.bz2 > > Neither can half of the other PPCs that Linux runs on - the 8xx and 4xx > lines (well, most of the existing 4xx line, not all of it) don't have > an FPU either. Right. That's different to such systems being able to run true PowerPC code though. While an e500 system might include PPC (FPU) compatibility emulation the intent is definitly not that PPC FPU code be run on that system. Hmm, I need to check something to do with i386 and x86-64. Andrew